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A longtime New York Times editor reexamines
America's long relationship with guns, finding
less than meets the eye in arguments for greater
gun regulationAmerica's war over gun control has raged since the 1960s. In 2008, the Supreme Court startled the left by concluding that with the Second Amendment the founders elevated "above all other interests" the right to bear arms "in defense of hearth and home." Liberals feared the NRA would succeed in rolling back regulations nationwide. Discussion about guns in America has been stalemated, shortcircuited, and dominated by rigidly and mutually intolerant ideologies. Yet we may be closer to a solution than either side may imagine. In Living With Guns, veteran New York Times editor Craig Whitney carefully reexamines America's relationship with guns, showing how guns are an important part of American culture. The earliest colonists needed them to survive. We have nearly 300 million of them today. Trying to restrict gun ownership doesn't effectively deter crime—we need to get serious about what actually works. Whitney shows that, if we focus on controlling violence rather than guns themselves, the Second Amendment may not be so lethal as the left would like to think. Craig R. Whitney spent his entire professional career as a reporter, foreign correspondent, and editor at the New York Times, where he was assistant managing editor in charge of standards and ethics when he retired in 2009. He is the author most recently of All The Stops. He lives in New York City.
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HARDCOVERISBN 978-1610391696 Pub date: 11/13/12 Price: $26.99/30.00 Canada 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 336 pages Current Events, Politics Selling Territory: W Rights: First Serial, British Commonwealth, Audio, Electronic rights: PublicAffairs Translation, Performance rights: The Strothman Agency
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